By Jaime Ortega.
Iraq seems to be highly stressed once again with a new blast of suicide bombers.
At least 38 people died in a suicide attack on a cafe in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, as confirmed by the local morgue doctor, Shakur Ahmed Ibrahim.
The attack, which also wounded 25 people, was carried out by a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt. It took place at 22:30 am in the district of Wahd Hozeran when people thronged the streets at the end of the fasting day of Ramadan, according to police and medical sources.
Hundreds of people flocked to the morgue in search of missing relatives, while security forces cordoned off several streets in the city, said Dr. Ibrahim, head of the main morgue in Kirkuk, 240 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Iskah Nil-Han a witness of the attack said that the bomb shook the building and glass parts flew all over the sky.
“I was in my way to fasting when suddenly I heard a huge explosion,” Nil-Han said. “Glass particles started falling from the sky.”
Another witness, that owns a bread shop close to the blast, Muhamad El-Zori said he tried to help a few badly wounded.
“I saw a young man that lost his legs in the aftermath of the explosion,” said El-Zori. “I had to carry had to carry him out the smoke, and put a curtain to cover the loss of blood.”
Already more than 260 people killed in violence in Iraq since the beginning of the month.
Also during the day, nine people, including a police general, killed in attacks mainly directed at the security forces following the latest wave of violence that has killed more than fifty people in recent days, according to sources security and medical applications
